They just don’t know how to make horror films any more. The Awakening started off okay, I suppose. Rebecca Hall (always a welcome presence in any movie) plays a cool, intelligent female scientist who debunks ghosts. She goes to a school where weird shit is happening, and starts coming up against creepy and ambiguous occurrences. There’s even some nice, haunting photos floating about. So far, so good.

But then they take the mystery out of everything and reduce her to a sniveling little girl, as the story is revealed to be far-fetched and kind of boring tale that shamelessly rips off The Sixth Sense, The Changeling, and The Shining.

It’s not a terrible film, just disappointing in the end.